The Resume

(August 10, 1874-October 20, 1964)
31st U.S. President (1929-33)
Last president to end his term in March
First president born west of the Mississippi

Why he might be annoying:

He was president during the depression (1929).
He spent his entire administration unsuccessfully trying to get America out of the depression.
Most people associate the depression with Hoover.

Why he might not be annoying:

He was an orphan.
He was a self-made millionaire before he was forty.
Columbia University picked him along with Thomas Edison as the two greatest engineers in the United States.
During WW I, he was instrumental in getting food to millions of hungry people in Europe. He said 'Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed (1921).'
He was left handed.

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• A Rose was Named in My Honor
• Collie Owners
• Ed Sullivan Show Guests
• Fear of the Number Thirteen - Triskaidekaphobic
• Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Men [1948] (Ranked: 6)
• Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Men [1949] (Ranked: 4)
• Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Men [1950] (Ranked: 5)
• Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Men [1951] (Ranked: 6)
• Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Men [1952] (Ranked: 7)
• Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Men [1953] (Ranked: 10)
• Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Men [1954] (Ranked: 9)
• Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Men [1955] (Ranked: 7)
• Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Men [1959] (Ranked: 8)
• Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Men [1962] (Ranked: 5)
• Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Men [Frequency] (Ranked: 10)
• Golden Girls References
• Horatio Alger Association Members
• Hound Owners
• I am a Quaker
• I am an Iowan
• I am Left Handed - Male [H-P]
• I Am Not Chinese But I Speak It
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [H-L]
• I Attended Stanford
• I Died in 1964 (Ranked: 90)
• I Laid in State at the Rotunda in the U.S. Capitol (Ranked: 1964)
• I Lost as the Republican Presidential Candidate (Ranked: 1932)
• I was Adopted or Orphaned
• I Was the Rose Parade Grand Marshall (Ranked: 1945)
• Long Names
• Male Pipe Smokers
• Newseum's 100 Stories of the Century (Ranked: 77)
• Newseum's 100 Stories of the Century (Ranked: 8)
• Person to Person - Guests [A-K]
• Profiles 3001-3250 (Ranked: 3217)
• Republican U.S. Presidents
• Satirized on Futurama
• Siberian Husky Owners
• Sitting Presidents who Lost (Ranked: 1932)
• Terrier Owners
• Top 100 Old Time Radio Moments of the 20th Century (Ranked: 72)
• U.S. News & World Reports 10 Worst Presidents (Ranked: 9)
• U.S. Presidential Library Locations (Ranked: 30)
• U.S. Presidents (Ranked: 31)
• U.S. Presidents Under 6 feet Tall (Ranked: 22)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 114 Votes: 54.39% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 75 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 264 Votes: 45.08% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 74 Votes: 54.05% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 73 Votes: 46.58% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 89 Votes: 55.06% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 21 Votes: 38.10% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 30 Votes: 86.67% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 76 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 22 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 111 Votes: 51.35% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 70 Votes: 54.29% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 99 Votes: 51.52% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 74 Votes: 47.30% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 191 Votes: 34.55% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 170 Votes: 42.94% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 276 Votes: 47.83% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 373 Votes: 67.29% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 396 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 904 Votes: 63.05% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 2474 Votes: 46.44% Annoying